VC Andrews

[Alkenny]

Okay, have to admit that I was always a big fan until she passed and the newer books seem to be rehashes of her old ones.

I'm still reading the new ones though...kind of like a bad train wreck :LOL...but this newest one is actually pretty good so far (Celeste).

The momma is a "different" type of momma, homeschooling, believes in the spirit world (amulets, talismans, etc), herbal concoctions...but of course, she has to be the wierdo.

Anyone else?

[weebitty2]

I used to love her books, but I stopped reading after the Heaven series, I think. (Probably read one or two others from newer once, but like you said, once she passed, they all seemed the same)

I'm going to have to try and find Celeste now though

[Alkenny]

It reminds me more along the lines of My Sweet Audrina (though nothing compares to that one, my fave!) Not a copy-cat, but just the "type". I don't know, hard to explain.

[daylily]

Oh lord, this thread brings back memories. When I was 12, my friends and I all had a copy of Flowers in the Attic hidden under our mattresses. LOL And the last few pages of my copy of Petals of the Wind fell right out of the book, so I never was clear about the ending of that one. Did the mother bury Cory in the attic or something?

[Faith]

I read every book I could get my hands on starting in the third grade! I also quit reading when she passed.

I loved them at the time, but now I have to wonder what my mother was thinking!

[MamaBug]

I read all those books to ,and there was even a movie of the first one, Flowers in the Attic, so freaking creepy. But it made my family seem nornal by comparison. I have read some of the books after she passed and they are ok, but I don't kill myself to read them, kwim?

I read Willow and would like to read the sequel and then there was one about 4 girls in a home? I forget the name of the series, it was 4 books, one about each girl I think and then the 5th book was about all of them together. That one was ok, or maybe not or I would remember it better right? :LOL

[pamamidwife]

I read those books back in junior high and recently picked up Flowers in the Attic again - omg, those are so BADLY written. I just could not believe it.

I loved them as an early teen, though. Definitely. I think she's been dead a number of years - and wasn't Flowers in the Attic her only book that SHE wrote? Wasn't the rest just using her name?

Hey! Take this quiz and find out what VC Andrews character you are! I was Melody Logan, but I have NO clue who this is!

http://www.quizilla.com/users/greenc...20you%3F%3F%3F

[Alkenny]

I'm pretty sure she wrote through the Heaven series...but there's been more written since she's passed than before. Some of them were ideas of hers she left and ghostwriters have expanded on. Yeah, they're cheesy...but like I said...like a bad train wreck and when you want to read something that doesn't make you think, you know?

Oh...I'm Cathy Dollanganger.

[Gemini]

I had a friend in 6th grade that read those books. From what she told me, I didn't want to read them. They sounded pretty out there. Heh.

[Gemini]

Found a web site about her...interesting.

http://www.ishipress.com/andrews.htm

[pamamidwife]

Hmmm....it just all sounds so fishy. I think I remember there being some doubt about there ever BEING a VC Andrews. Oh, this was years ago - like 10 years ago....I just cannot remember. ?

[Alkenny]

Gee, you're trying to make me think and I don't want to do that. :LOL Noone reads VC Andrews to contemplate the deep meaning of life or anything...I don't care WHO wrote them.

[darsmama]

I remember there being speculation on if there even was a VC Andrews too.
I started to read the Flowers in the attic series again last year. Couldn't make it past the second one. I really thought My Sweet Audrina was pretty good though.

[pamamidwife]

LOL, Lish!

Reading the VC Andrews books kind of reminds me of those true crime novels - they're like junk food to me, but they're so dramatic and way over the top. Still, I can understand the appeal.

[MamaBug]

Took that quiz I am Dawn Cutler?

I know I remember this but which series was it. I put that I liked singing and I do remember a book about a girl who sings?

I agree that these are not the best written books but it IS like a train wreck and I just have to read once in a while. Sort of like Danielle Steel:LOL

[Irishmommy]

The original Flowers in the Attic stuff was credited to Virginia Andrews. I think it only became VC when she died.

[Alkenny]

Originally Posted by SoccerMom

Took that quiz I am Dawn Cutler?
I know I remember this but which series was it. I put that I liked singing and I do remember a book about a girl who sings?

http://expage.com/page/cutler1

[TigerTail]

oh pam, don't tell me you're comparing these to my beloved ann rule true crime novels? ack!

no offense, fans (i'm partial to regency romances myself), but i found them unreadable. but enjoy, to each his own

suse

[pamamidwife]

ah, Suse, I was thinking more about the ones written by that Aphrodite woman - the ones that are written in a hotel room in a weekend! lol!

[MamaBug]

Thanks Lish, I think I am going to have to reread those books my memory stinks and while it is familiar and I know I have read it I can't remember it clearly! Man getting old stinks! :LOL